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Teaching with Twitter « TechKNOW Tools - 0 views

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Describes the benefits of using Twitter in education

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Twitter for Teachers Workshop - Additional Links | Kirsten Winkler - 0 views

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A wiziq session with three faculty who describe their use of twitter. Enza Antenos Conforti describes her Italian language learning project using Twitter. Includes project assessment.

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7 Things You Should Know About... | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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A series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes: What it is How it works Where it is going Why it matters to teaching and learning

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Frequently updated posts for language-related jobs in the U.S.

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7 Things You Should Know About Personal Learning Environments | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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Admissions of Guilt -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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Should information about applicants found on the Web but not submitted by them be used in admissions decisions? by Terry Calhoun

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Reliability of Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom | Emerging Internet Technologies for ... - 0 views

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After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds - Technology - T... - 0 views

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It turns out that virtual worlds are at their best when they look nothing like a traditional campus. Professors are finding that they can stage medical simulations, guide students through the inside of cell structures, or present other imaginative teaching exercises that cannot be done in a physical classroom.
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OpenSimulator, and it is essentially a free knockoff of Second Life
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The most ambitious attempt to build an education-friendly virtual world is a project called Open Cobalt,
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Any college with a spare server and some staff time can use the OpenSimulator software and play God to a virtual world.
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The main request is the ability to limit access to students in a course, which the group can do.
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To counter these new options, Linden Lab is testing a product that would let colleges install a world on their own servers and limit access to students and professors. Case Western is among those trying it out for its virtual campus.
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Maybe 3-D online environments are just one of those technologies that sound cool but never fully materialize, like personal jetpacks. Trying to make the World Wide Web look like the real world misses the new kinds of things the Internet can do.
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"We don't really understand what we can do and what we can't do with this tool for education yet, so it's more exploratory now," said Peter J. Ludlow, a philosophy professor at Northwestern University who studies virtual worlds. "We know there's something here, but we don't know what yet."
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Barbara Lindsey on 18 Feb 10

It turns out that virtual worlds are at their best when they look nothing like a traditional campus. Professors are finding that they can stage medical simulations, guide students through the inside of cell structures, or pre sent other imaginative teaching exercises that cannot be done in a physical classroom.

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  I'm so glad that we are going to work with assessment. Thanks a lot, Barbara.
  
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Bilingual babies: The roots of bilingualism in newborns - 0 views

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White House Tweets now part of presidential records

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Copying and pasting in Google Docs : Text editing - Google Docs Help - 0 views

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You can also copy and paste from one computer to another using the server clipboard menu.

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Insightful, critical student-produced work that makes judicious use of copyright material.

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Remix Culture -- Videos -- Center for Social Media - 0 views

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Just under 4 minute video designed to prompt discussion about fair use of copyrighted works. Linked to their Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for Online Video

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Recut, Reframe, Recycle -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University - 0 views

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An annotated timeline of Prof. Wesch's video

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